
Photos: Chaim Yisrael and Benny Friedman Concert
Chaim Yisrael and Benny Friedman performed in concert Sunday night at the Brooklyn School of Music in Crown Heights.
Chaim Yisrael and Benny Friedman performed in concert Sunday night at the Brooklyn School of Music in Crown Heights.
At his induction ceremony as Chaplain to the Port Washington Police Department, Rabbi Shalom Moshe Paltiel told Police Chief James Salerno and the attending officers that while he tries to teach about a G-d fearing society, “You actually make it happen.”
Daniel and Shulie (nee Silman) Green (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 57, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Can Violators Do Teshuva? Healing From Molestation and Dealing with Violators (Part III), and Is Chutzpah An Outgrowth of Chassidishe Confidence?
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed and critically wounded 27-year-old Avrohom Goldschmidt in Jerusalem, but his rampage was cut short by a body guard along with the city’s mayor Nir Barkat – dramatic video footage shows.
Second Bite, an Australian organization which rescues supermarket food that has reached its use by date, has joined Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen, a soup kitchen directed by Chabad Shliach Rabbi Dovid Slavin, in a new initiative to get that food to those who need it.
Violinist Shimon Weitzhandler skillfully performs the popular Chabad Niggun ‘Hupp Kossack’ on violin. Accompanying him is the Blue Melody orchestra.
Friends and supporters of G’mach Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib turned out for a seudas Melava Malka last night, Motzai Shabbos Parshas Terumah.
It’s a family tradition of sorts. Jacob Susskind’s father played basketball for a year as an undergraduate at Mulhenberg College in Allentown, Pa. His mother, while not a college athlete, is a personal trainer and holistic nutritional consultant.
When Rabbi Elchonon Halperin of London came by the Rebbe to ask for a blessing for his granddaughter’s wedding, the Rebbe said to the Kallah: “Your wedding date falls out at just the right time to ‘increase in joy.'”
Shaya and Chanie Gordon (Crown Heights)
Israelis in various regions of the country woke up to see white on Friday morning, with snow falling from the Golan Heights in the north to the Negev in the south overnight. Especially beautiful is the sight of the ancient holy city of Jerusalem covered in snow, which was captured in this video by a camera-equipped drone.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatomim Yehudah Shmuel Maimon, OBM, son of the well-known Lubavitcher radio broadcaster Reb Ami Maimon of Chulon, Israel. He passed away mere days after celebrating his Bar Mitzvah.
Inspired by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who would stand for hours every Sunday giving out dollars for others to pass on to those in need, a group of girls went out onto the streets of New York with a bucket of change. Rather than asking for money, they gave out money. This is what happened…
Schneur Zalman (ben R’ Mendel) Reizes (Crown Heights) and Devorah Leah Bronstein (Andover, MA)
On the third floor of Montreal’s Lubavitch Yeshiva, a giant mural depicting a map of the world with flags pinned to the location of each Chabad Yeshiva was recently unveiled. The mural was made up of 7500 bottle caps and took six months to complete.